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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Arizona, Arizona St. tied at Northrop Grumman; Arkansas in front in Puerto Rico

The college golf season resumed this weekend with the
ultimate goal a trip to the NCAA Championship final at the Karsten Creek Golf
Club in Stillwater, Okla. in May.

There may not be a better field for the women than the one
that teed off in the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge, hosted by Ohio State,
Sunday until the NCAA Championship. Eight of the top 10 women in the Women’s
World Amateur Golf Ranking were in the field that teed it up at Palos Verdes
Golf Club in Palos Verdes, Calif. Four of the top-five teams in the latest Golfstat rankings are in the field.

It’s almost like NASCAR, a circuit which crowns a champion
at the end of the season but opens its season with the Super Bowl of stock car
auto racing, next week’s Daytona 500. It’s a little weird, but it works.

The No. 6 team in the country coming into the spring
campaign, reigning national champion Arizona State, and in-state rival Arizona,
ranked 39th, got things going as each posted a 1-over-par 285 over
the 6,017-yard, Palos Verdes layout to share the opening-round lead.

There are some seriously talented teams in this loaded
18-team field chasing them. No. 1 UCLA and No. 3 Alabama share third place, seven
shots behind the co-leaders at 8-over 292. No. 12 Northwestern, which lost to
Arizona State in the NCAA Championship’s Final Match last spring at Rich
Harvest Farms, is alone in fifth place, another shot behind UCLA and Alabama at
9-over 293.

No. 5 Stanford and No. 11 Southern California are tied for
sixth at 295. By the way, the Pac-12 Championship might be a little contentious
this spring since Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Southern Cal and Stanford will
all be battling for the title that UCLA won a year ago.

Leading the way for the Sun Devils and sitting atop the
individual leaderboard is Olivia Mehaffey, a sophomore from Ireland and a
member of Great Britain & Ireland’s winning 2016 Curtis Cup side. Mehaffey
fired a 3-under 68 and holds a one-shot lead over a trio of talented players.

That group is led by Alabama’s Kristen Gillman, a sophomore
from Austin, Texas and the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion. Gillman is No. 9
in the latest Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking. Gillman is joined at 2-under
69 by one of the many fabulous freshmen around the country this year, Texas’
Kaitlyn Papp, like Gillman an Austin, Texas product, and Baylor’s Garleen Kaur,
a freshman from Houston.

Backing up Mehaffey for Arizona State is Madison Kerley, a
junior from Phoenix who is in a group tied for eighth at even-par 71. The Sun
Devils got a pair of 2-over 73s from Sophia Zeeb, a senior from Germany, and
Roberta Liti, a senior from Italy, which leaves them in a group tied for 19th
as all four Arizona State counters ended up inside the top 20.

Rounding out the Arizona State lineup is Raquel Olmos Ros, a
freshman from Spain who is tied for 75th with a 79. The Sun Devils
lost one of their top players during the midseason break as Swede Linnea Strom
turned pro.

Arizona was led by Haley Moore, a junior from Escondido,
Calif. who is one of the top individual talents in the country. Moore fired a
1-under 70 to share fifth place with UCLA’s Beth Wu, a junior from Diamond Bar,
Calif. and a member of the 2016 U.S. Curtis Cup team, and Oklahoma State’s
Chih-Min Chen, a junior from Taiwan.

Backing up Moore for the Wildcats is Gigi Stoll, a junior
from Tigard, Ore. who is in the group tied for eighth at even-par 71. Teammates
Bianca Pagdanganan, a junior from the Philippines, and Yu-Sang Hou, a freshman
from Taiwan, a shot behind Stoll in a group tied for 14th at 1-over
72. The Wildcats’ four counters were all among the top 15 in the individual
standings.

Rounding out the Arizona lineup is Sandra Nordaas, a
sophomore from Norway who carded a 75 and is in a group tied for 39th.

There are a ton of storylines playing out in Palos Verdes,
but I thought I’d give a shout-out to Duke senior Lisa Maguire. The native of
Ireland has struggled at Duke while twin sister Leona Maguire has risen to the
top of the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking.

But Sunday Lisa claimed low-Maguire honors with a 3-over 74
that left her in the group tied for 32nd. Leona Maguire was another
shot back at 4-over 75 in the group tied for 39th.

Leona Maguire received the Annika Award that goes to the top
player in Division I women’s golf for the second time in her brilliant
collegiate career last year. She’s back for her senior season because she wants
to be part of an NCAA team championship with the Blue Devils. She’ll need her
twin sister’s help to accomplish that goal.

Meanwhile in Puerto Rico, the one top-five team in the
latest Golfstat rankings that is not
at the Northrup Grumman, No. 4 Arkansas, grabbed an eight-shot lead following
the opening round of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic at Rio Mar Country Club’s
Ocean Course Sunday.

It is the 16th year that Purdue has hosted the
Lady Puerto Rico Classic, but something tells me it is the most important edition
the event has ever had. Not for the players and the teams, but for the island.

I can’t really find anything to back this up, but I’m
guessing that this event keeping its spot on the calendar is a very important
step toward some semblance of normalcy on an island devastated by Hurricane
Maria and largely forgotten by its country. If the players found their welcome
especially warm in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, that’s probably why.

On the golf course, the Razorbacks, led by their star Maria
Fassi, a junior from Mexico, matched par at the 5,981-yard, par-71 Rio Mar
layout with a 284 total.

No. 22 Kent State is alone in second place at 8-over 292,
No. 26 Iowa State is third at 12-over 296, No. 65 Texas Christian is fourth at
297 and No. 43 North Carolina State is fifth at 299.

Purdue is the second-highest ranked team in the field at 17th,
but the Boilermakers struggled and are last in the field of 11 at 312. It looks
like Purdue is without one of its top players in Covadonga SanJuan, a junior
from Spain, but expect the Boilermakers to move up the leaderboard in Monday’s
second round.

Fassi tamed the Rio Mar course, and reportedly some windy
conditions, for a 3-under 68, the only under-par round of the day. Fassi’s
teammate Dylan Kim, a junior from Plano, Texas, is one of four players who
matched par with a 71 to share second place.

Kim was joined at that figure by two Kent State players,
Karoline Stormo, a sophomore from Norway, and Michaela Finn, a junior from
Sweden, and Maryland’s Charlotte Lafourcade, a freshman from France.

A third Razorback, Alana Uriell, a senior from Carlsbad,
Calif., is one of three players tied for sixth at 1-over 72. She was joined at
that figure by Iowa State’s Chayanit Wangmahaporn, a junior from Thailand, and
TCU’s Yeji Shin, a junior from Norwood, N.J.

Arkansas’ fourth counter was Maria Hoyos, a freshman from
Colombia who is tied for ninth at 1-over 73, giving the Razorbacks four players
inside the top 10.

Teams were allowed six players, one more than the usual
five, for the resumption of the college tournament season. Rounding out the
Arkansas lineup were Kaylee Barton, a junior from Buckeye, Ariz. who carded a
78 and is tied for 39th and Jordy LaBarbera, a senior from Allen,
Texas who posted an 84 and is tied for 63rd.

The host Boilermakers were led by Micaela Farah, a sophomore
from Peru who came in at 5-over 71 and is tied for 22nd.

Also for Purdue, Inez Wanamarten, a freshman from Indonesia,
is tied for 32nd with a 77, its senior leaders, Marta Martin (79) of
Spain and Linn Andersson (80) of Sweden, are tied for 48th and 52nd,
respectively, Ida Ayu Indira Melati Putri, a junior from Indonesia, is tied for
60th with an 83 and Lauren Guiao, a freshman from Evansville, Ind.,
is tied for 65th with an 86.

About Me

I started this blog while working at the Delaware County Daily Times and have continued it since being laid off in January 2016. The content has blossomed, but the original focus will always be on golfers in the Philadelphia area first, be they male or female, amateur or professional, junior or senior.
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